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In this special broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of So Far From Care, we return to Marfa for two different stories. This tiny desert town is often ro...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 58:30
In episodes 3 and 4 of So Far From Care, "What We're Capable Of" and "She's Not Here," you’ll hear about what it’s like to live even further out th...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 54:30
Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Not every eviction is equal.
- Added: Aug 18, 2023
- Length: 29:00
What is daily life like when your young son becomes your daughter? Marlo Mack explains what it's like to have a transgender kindergartener.
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 4
Tania Chairez is a social entrepreneur and educator who grew up undocumented under the threat of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona. In this episode, Ta...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 12:40
This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
Snapshots of life during the pandemic from voices all over the world. In this piece, among other things, we hear about the Easter Bunny visiting on...
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- Added: Apr 30, 2020
- Length: 12:38
- Purchases: 1
Episode 31
Two years ago on July 28th, Houda’s family stepped off a plane into the intense Tucson heat. They weren’t sure what was in store for the...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:38
Three days after 9/11, I run into a cop who is just up from Ground Zero to get cigarettes and something warm. Something real.
- Added: Sep 01, 2016
- Length: 09:20
On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 10:26
What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 11:00
What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 21:09
A phoned-in call from Marian, and her story about her beloved cat Homer. Followed by a musical moment.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 1
A mother comes to terms with the fact that her young son...is actually her daughter.
Bought by XRAY.fm, HowSound, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 7
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:34
When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 05:35
Daquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis laments losing a best friend.
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- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis, writes about moving forward despite having to struggle
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School, tells about the experiences that hade him what he is. A good deal of pathos is included.
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:35
- Purchases: 2
Annie confronts her brother about his lying.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WJCT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 12:14
- Purchases: 3
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:04
This week, our stories are all about turning points, as our writers move from innocence to knowledge, their lives forever changed. Stories by Sarah...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
